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Emile ZOLA

L'oeuvre

Charpentier & Cie, Paris 1886, 12x19cm, relié.

First Edition. Binding to bradel half calico cherry corners, smooth back slightly once adorned a bookplate golden floral pattern, double gold thread date and tail, part of title grief navy dishes marbled paper covers preserved, glued to the back of the first flat, contemporary binding. Autograph signed by the author to his friend the painter Giacomelli. In 1866, Zola noted in "My Haines' talent Giacomelli:" [Giacomelli] has enriched the Bible [ornaments] of exquisite delicacy. (...) There is a strange contrast between the purity of its lines and the feverish and tormented line Gustave Doré. These are but I know that mere ornaments, but they reflect a true artistic feeling full of taste and grace. I would like to see him do his work apart. "The following year, he also commented on his illustration of the bird Jules Michelet who remain the most famous achievement of the artist:" Mr. Giacomelli exquisite finesse. Imagine the lightness of English engravings, less dryness and hardness. It draws with a needle, but with a needle that has all the vigor and the full extent of the brush. This is fine and fat at the same time, very flexible and very strong, beautifully finished and yet very broad. Michelet could not have chosen a better artist to illustrate the Bird. He found this artist in the rare qualities that asked this difficult task. "Therefore, Emile Zola and Hector Giacomelli befriend and exchange correspondence with a significant portion has not been found to date. However, the fifteen known letters hints at closeness between the two men united by a deep mutual respect and admiration. Among them, there is this missive Zola, 1 January 1886, citing precisely the difficult drafting of Work: "I still work too, cloistered here for two months by the end of this novel which has just started published earlier than I wanted. There is no torture like to hear a series galloping behind you and always threaten to catch up. I do not lose an hour. "Precious autograph dedication to a painter on the novel that caused the rift between Zola and Cézanne.

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